1. Essential Oils and Mental Health

2. Essential Oils Help to Treat
Stress
Anxiety
Depression

3. Stress Lavender- known as the "universal oil.”
Calming, earthy, lightly sweet and freshly floral scent, it is widely beloved for its relaxing and balancing effects on both the physical and emotional bodies.
Frankincense
Comforting warm, exotic aroma, most common use is stress
Rose
Maybe costly due to its labor-intensive extraction process, which requires 60,000 roses for every one ounce of rose.
Chamomile
Suited for calming the nerves and supporting digestive health.
Vanilla
If the pure scent of warm vanilla makes you feel right at home, some aroma therapists say it is because vanilla is the closest in fragrance and flavor of mothers milk.

4. Anxiety Lavender: Emotional anti-inflammatory Chamomile: relaxation
Works on the limbic system & can potentiate the GABA-A receptor
Skin, oral, inhaled
Induces calm, relaxed, restful feeling
Chamomile: relaxation
Can help with GAD
Rose Geranium: Mood booster
Soothing sensation
Other Oils: Sandalwood, Clary Sage, Ylang Ylang, Sweet Majoring, Bergamot, Jasmine

5. Depression Rosemary Clary Sage Orange Blossom Lavender Rose Geranium
Other Oils: Bergamot, cedarwood, cinnamon, cypress, jasmine, sandalwood, rose, ylang ylang.

6. Disclaimer
Essential oils do NOT treat the underlying cause of stress, depression, and anxiety.
They are to be used as supplemental therapies.